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Vegemite anyone?

Now if you think we’re going to have Australia Day without a discussion of Vegemite, you’re off your nut.

Ah, that glutinous, shimmery, black ooze of health. According to Vegemite Central, Vegemite is not like peanut butter; you don’t want to eat it with a spoon directly from the jar. However, you can make a vegemite milkshake.

Sick. Really sick.

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Mr. Of the Court

The first person of the Australian Delegation I met is my weblogging tag team partner, Jonathon Delacour.

In case you’re curious about how I stumbled on to Jonathon — or he stumbled on to me — we were introduced by none other than Dave Winer.

After Radio 8.0 first released, and after spending hour after hour of reading Radio weblogs consisting only of “Hello World” and “test”, I was checking out _yet another_ new Radio weblog when I found the following:

Marius has accused me of doing a Dave i.e. editing weblog entries “after the damage is done”.

The phrase caught my fancy and I immortalized Do a Dave into the Blogicon after getting Jonathon’s permission to do so. That’s when I first discovered Jonathon’s weblog — a discovery that has been a rich and rewarding experience for me.

It’s surprising but this all happened in January. January! That’s just a few months ago!

But in those few months I’ve shared with Jonathon my driving adventures, travels, political viewpoints, technology, stories, laughter, and fears. In return he’s shared with me his eloquence, intelligence, his understanding and love of Japanese language, culture, and history, as well as his sense of humor and appreciation for a really good beer.

A few months — what’s that in weblogging years?

So take a moment and say hello to my good friend, Jonathon.

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Australia Day

I had a lot of fun with this today. The color scheme (Australian flag colors), the Australian terms (try and find a posting with over 20 and 25 comments attached to see all of them), but most importantly, introducing you, my weblog reader, to the Australian Delegation.

As I introduced my friends from Australia, I realized that if for no other reason, I weblog because of the people I meet. They increase my reach, they enrich my life, and they expand my horizens.

And they now owe me a case of Tim Tams!

G’day mate.

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And introducing a new Australian weblog

I think an appropriate end to Australia Day is to introduce you to a new Australian weblog, Marius Discovering Photography — a photoblog (photography weblog).

Welcome Marius! I especially liked the parachute photo and pic of your Dad. Your dog’s cute, but you need a cat photo.

Note that I’ve started a pool to see when Marius loses his photography theme and starts meta-blogging like the rest of us 😉

(Thanks to Jonathon for intro)